Types of shot, Magnification, Size

Movements, Transitions
Sound
 SHOT: anuninterrupted recording by
camera. Attributes are following:
Image Size
Magnification
Angle of View, Position
Movement(s)
Screen Direction
 There are four basic ways one can transition from one shot or visual
element into another:
CUT
DISSOLVE
WIPE
FADE- in & out
 In cinema, every frame is a transition to the
next frame. So is the case with shots and
scenes.
Essentially, change is the recurring reality of
the film making process. (change from
frame to frame, shot to shot, scene to scene.
However, not all changes can be considered
as transitions.
 What can qualify as a transition is when one
or more of the following factors occur:
The change should be significant in terms of
time, space, settings, geography, emotional
and psychological state, intensity of the
feelings, speed of the action, mood of the
setting, (of characters and/or spatio-
temporal continuum).
 To explore the possibilities of transitions is
to explore, deeply, the meaning in each of
the shots, scene, and their relation to the
next shot, scene. The kind of transition and
its impact will differ according to the intent
and its usage.
The kind of transition used is a function of
the nature of the story telling - most of the
time of the content and sometimes of form.
 When two scenes are being linked together
what is happening is that the audiences
perception of the film is constantly
changing. They are continuously being
forced, due to the transitions, to either build
on the expectations/beliefs that they have
acquired up to that point in the film, or to
completely change everything that they
expected/ believed.
 Transitionsbecome an external force, or the
voice of the filmmaker, in making the
audience understand and realize what he is
trying to say. And the exact point of
transition becomes critical for the
filmmaker in this communication of his
Transitions can be gauged based on their
intent and on their actual realization.
 Transitions may be used repeatedly in the film,
as a motif, and thus derive a larger meaning, but
not so frequently that they become restricted to
being a stylistic device.
there are transitions based on what is there in
the shot (content of the shot)
what is external to the shot (optical effects such
as fades, dissolves etc)
and transitions that occur within the shot (time
lapse and so on)